Author’s Blog
One Year Since Publication – My Thoughts and Thanks
Today marks the first anniversary since the publication of The Moses Scroll, so I could not let the day pass without pausing to reflect on the unexpected success of my first book. As a first-time author and a self-published one at that, I could not be more...
Touring Holy Lands with Ross K. Nichols & Friends
I was last in Israel in March of 2020 when the world shut down because of Covid; in fact, I had a difficult time returning to the states at that time. Thankfully, and finally, things seem to be returning to a sense of normalcy, and I am very excited to share some good...
A Transcription of Shapira’s Handwritten “Notes as a Preface to the M.S. Deuteronomy
[A PDF version of this post is available on my Academia page. These “notes as a preface to the M.S. of Deut.” is contained in the dossier, “Papers Relative to M.W. Shapira’s Forged MS. Of Deuteronomy (A.D. 1883 – 1884).” Add. MS. 41294 (London: British Library). In...
Afraid of Fraud – The Codex Sinaiticus
In 1933, the British Museum purchased one of the world’s most precious Biblical manuscripts from the Russians. It is known as the Codex Sinaiticus. They reportedly paid £100,000; a price equal to approximately £7.3 million in 2022. I, of course, knew the basic story...
Moses Shapira’s Magnificent Missing Manuscript of Jeremiah?
Yet another paper has appeared in the ongoing debate over the authenticity of Shapira’s [in]famous leather manuscript strips. The latest, posted on Academia, relates a story of a manuscript seen in the shop of Moses Shapira in the year 1870. The author writes that in...
The Christian Nature of Shapira’s Fragments: An Argument Accepted, Ignored, or Considered Unconvincing
On 12 January 2022, Brill published a new contribution to Shapira studies in Dead Sea Discoveries (2022) 1-29. The printed version will soon follow the online version under the same title, "Shapira's Deuteronomy, Its Decalogue, and Dead Sea Scrolls Authentic and...